backsliding Israel lit. Israel"(which is) apostasy(itself)." The play on the two senses of the Hebrew verb to turn backfrom Yahweh, and to turn back (or return) from false gods to Him, which runs through all this passage (as far as Jeremiah 4:1) is lost by the rendering "backsliding." See Dr. p. 340.
hath done rather did(and so for the following verbs, went up … there played). Samaria had fallen, c.b.c. 722.
Verse Jeremiah 3:6. _THE LORD SAID ALSO UNTO ME IN THE DAYS OF JOSIAH THE_ _KING_] This is a new discourse, and is supposed to have been delivered after the _eighteenth_ year of the reign of Josiah....
BACKSLIDING ISRAEL - The original is very strong: Hast thou seen Apostasy? i. e., Israel: as though Israel were the very personificatiom of the denial of God. SHE IS GONE UP - Rather, she goes; it is...
THE CALL TO REPENTANCE AND JUDGMENT ANNOUNCED (3:6-6:30) CHAPTER 3 _ 1. The contrast between backslidden Israel and treacherous Judah (Jeremiah 3:6) _ 2. The call to return and the promised glory ...
ISRAEL'S SIN LESS THAN JUDAH'S. This passage interrupts the continuity of Jeremiah 3:19 with Jeremiah 3:5 (note also the interruptive introductory formula, Jeremiah 3:6), and seems to be a separate pr...
Jeremiah 3:6 ; JEREMIAH 4:1 IS JEREMIAH'S FIFTH PROPHECY. (see Book comments for Jeremiah). IN THE DAYS OF JOSIAH. This must be noted to understand the context. ISRAEL. Here refers to the Northern K...
THE LORD SAID ALSO UNTO ME— A new discourse begins at this verse. Jeremiah having convinced the Jews of their infidelity, idolatry, and all sorts of corruption, in the way of pleading, from the second...
B. The Need for Repentance Jeremiah 3:6-10 TRANSLATION (6) And the LORD said unto me in the days of Josiah the king: Have You seen that which backsliding Israel has done? She continuously goes upon e...
The LORD said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath p...
THE PROPHET SETS FORTH THE SIN OF THE NATION AND POINTS OUT THE INEVITABLE RESULT (REIGN OF JOSIAH, AND PROBABLY BEFORE THE REFORMS OF THAT KING: CP. JEREMIAH 3:6) This section furnishes us with the g...
JEREMIAH'S THIRD PROPHECY. THE FATE OF THE TEN TRIBES A WARNING TO JUDAH In this prophecy, as in the last, idolatry is denounced under the figure of unfaithfulness to the marriage vow. But as a marke...
THE LORD SAID ALSO UNTO ME... — The main point of the second prophecy (we might almost call it sermon), delivered, like the former, under Josiah, is the comparison of the guilt of the two kingdoms of...
וַ יֹּ֨אמֶר יְהוָ֜ה אֵלַ֗י בִּ ימֵי֙ יֹאשִׁיּ
CHAPTER II THE TRUST IN THE SHADOW OF EGYPT Jeremiah 2:1; Jeremiah 3:1 THE first of the prophet's public addresses is, in fact, a sermon which proceeds from an exposure of national sin to the menac...
CHAPTER III ISRAEL AND JUDAH: A CONTRAST Jeremiah 3:6; Jeremiah 4:1 THE first address of our prophet was throughout of a sombre cast, and the darkness of its close was not relieved by a single ray o...
Following the impeachment, the prophet appealed to the people to return. This appeal commenced with a declaration that Jehovah's love was greater than man's in that He was willing to receive back the...
The LORD said also to me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen [that] which backsliding (i) Israel hath done? she hath gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there h...
_Days, before the 18th year. God now pronounces sentence (Calmet) on all. (Haydock) --- Rebellious, a faithless wife. The kingdom of Israel gave way to idolatry first. But the people were less favoure...
It should seem, that this is the opening of a new sermon; perhaps it was preached at a different period from the former: but the subject is the same. A sad account is given of both kingdoms, Judah and...
Here the Prophet enters on a new discourse: he relates what God had committed to him, and mentions the time, even in the reign of Josiah. It is indeed well known, that the land was then cleansed from...
Chapter 3 has the same character; indeed it is the continuation of the same address; but it contains details of Israel's and Judah's behaviour, and proclaims the restoration of Israel by sovereign goo...
THE LORD SAID ALSO UNTO ME, IN THE DAYS OF JOSIAH THE KING,.... For in his time Jeremiah began to prophesy, even in the thirteenth year of his reign, Jeremiah 1:2: HAST THOU SEEN THAT WHICH BACKSLIDI...
The LORD said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen [that] which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath...
_Then the Lord said unto me_ “Here begins an entire new section, or distinct prophecy, which is continued to the end of the sixth chapter. It consists of two distinct parts. The first part contains a...
THE CALL TO RETURN...
The Lord said also unto me in the days of Josiah, the king, an account which the prophet here inserts on account of the application. HAST THOU SEEN THAT WHICH BACKSLIDING ISRAEL HATH DONE? Israel bein...
6-11 If we mark the crimes of those who break off from a religious profession, and the consequences, we see abundant reason to shun evil ways. It is dreadful to be proved more criminal than those who...
THE LORD SAID ALSO, OR AGAIN; showing that here begins a new sermon, in which the prophet from God, 1. Declares Israel's apostacy, and how it fared with them for it. 2. Aggravates Judah's sin for no...
Jeremiah 3:6 LORD H3068 said H559 (H8799) days H3117 Josiah H2977 king H4428 seen H7200 (H8804) backsliding...
YHWH CALLS ON JUDAH TO CONSIDER WHAT HAD HAPPENED TO ISRAEL, HER NORTHERN NEIGHBOUR, WHEN SHE HAD FAILED TO TURN BACK TO HIM, SOMETHING THAT JUDAH IS ALSO FAILING TO DO (JEREMIAH 3:6). YHWH here refer...
THE LORD SAID The general character of the second message to Judah is: (1) of reproach that the example of Jehovah's chastening of the northern kingdom (2 Kings 17:1) had produced no effect upon Jud...
Let us read part of the 3 rd chapter of Jeremiah where God brings a solemn accusation against the two nations of Israel and Judah because they forsook the living God, and went after idols neglected hi...
In this chapter, the sin of God's people is put in the strongest possible light. The figure used may be even said to be a coarse one, but man's sin is itself a coarse thing. The thoughts suggested in...
CONTENTS: Jeremiah's message concerning the impenitence of Judah. Encouragement to backsliders to return and repent. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: Those will justly be divorced from God tha...
Jeremiah 3:3. _Therefore the showers,_ of the former and the latter rain, _have been withheld._ Other prophets make the same remark. God is not obliged to give luxuriant harvests to furnish feasts to...
_Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also._ COMPARATIVE CRIMINALITY I. State this decision of the Lord. 1. Israel, from the time they became a distinct nation, cast off God; therefore,...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 3:6 God speaks to Jeremiah IN THE DAYS OF KING JOSIAH (after 627 B.C.; see Jeremiah 1:1) concerning the faithlessness of...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—_1. Chronology._ Exact date of chapter uncertain. It naturally divides itself at Jeremiah 3:5, although Dahler, Umbriet, and Neuman contend for the unity of the chapter...
EXPOSITION That this chapter (to which the first four verses of Jeremiah 4:1. ought to have been attached) belongs to the time of Josiah seems to be proved by Jeremiah 3:6, and the years immediately f...
They say (Jeremiah 3:1), That is, in quoting the law and in speaking of the law, Deuteronomy. If a man puts away his wife, and she goes from him, and becomes another man's wife, shall he return unto...
1 Kings 14:23; 2 Kings 17:7; Ezekiel 16:24; Ezekiel 16:25; Ez
Israel — The ten tribes who fell off from Judah....